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- Five empresses : court life in eighteenth-century Russia / by Anisimov, E. V.(EvgeniiÌ Viktorovich);
Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-368) and index.The Cinderella from Livland (Catherine I) -- The poor relative who became empress (Anna Ioannovna) -- The secret prisoner and her children (Anna Leopol'dovna) -- The Russian Aphrodite (Elizabeth) -- The sovereign of the north (Catherine the Great)- Subjects: Empresses; Women; Tsaren.; Vrouwen.;
- © 2004., Praeger,
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- The unfinished revolution : how a new generation is reshaping family, work, and gender in America / by Gerson, Kathleen.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 264-282) and index.Acknowledgments -- 1: Shaping of a new generation -- Part 1: Growing Up In Changing Families -- 2: Families beyond the stereotypes -- 3: Rising fortunes of flexible families -- 4: Domestic deadlocks and declining fortunes -- Part 2: Facing The Future -- 5: High hopes, lurking fears -- 6: Women's search for self-reliance -- 7: Men's resistance to equal sharing -- 8: Reaching across the gender divide -- 9: Finishing the gender revolution -- Appendix 1: List of respondents and sample demographics -- Appendix 2: Studying social and individual change -- Notes -- References -- Index.From the Publisher: The vast changes in family life-the rise of single, same-sex, and two-paycheck parents-have often been blamed for declining morality and unhappy children. Drawing upon pioneering research with the children of the gender revolution, Kathleen Gerson reveals that it is not a lack of "family values," but rigid social and economic forces that make it difficult to live out those values. In the controversial public debate over modern American families, The Unfinished Revolution takes a measured approach, looking at the young adults who grew up in the tumultuous post-feminist period. Despite the entrance of women into the workforce and the blurring of once clearly defined gender boundaries, men and women live in a world where the demands of balancing parenting and work, autonomy and commitment, time and money are left largely unresolved. Gerson finds that while an overwhelming majority of young men and women see an egalitarian balance within committed relationships as the ideal, today's social and economic realities remain based on traditional-and now obsolete-distinctions between bread winning and ca retaking. In this equity vacuum, men and women develop conflicting strategies, with women stressing self-reliance and men seeking a new traditionalism. With compassion for all perspectives, Gerson argues that whether one decides to give in to traditionally imbalanced relationships or to avoid marriage completely, these approaches are second-best responses, not personal preferences or inherent attributes, and they will shift if new options can be created to help people achieve their egalitarian aspirations. The Unfinished Revolution makes clear recommendations for the kinds of workplace and community changes that would best bring about a more egalitarian family life-a new flexibility at work and at home that benefits families, encourages a thriving economy, and helps women and men integrate love and work.- Subjects: Families; Work and family; Professional employees; Women employees; Male employees; Sex role; Gezin.; Arbeid.; Werkende vrouwen;
- © 2010., Oxford University Press,
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- Cherokee women in crisis : Trail of Tears, Civil War, and allotment, 1838-1907 / by Johnston, Carolyn,1948-;
Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-211) and index.I: Crisis of gender -- Cultural continuity -- Early catalysts for change -- The trail of tears -- II: Crisis of the Civil War and reconstruction -- The Civil War -- Reconstruction -- III: Crisis of allotment -- Allotment.- Subjects: Cherokee women; Cherokee women; Cherokee women; Trail of Tears, 1838-1839.; Indians of North America; Indian allotments; Cherokee (volk); Vrouwen.;
- © c2003., University of Alabama Press,
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- The beauty industry : gender, culture, pleasure / by Black, Paula,1966-;
Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-199) and index.Ordinary people come through here: introducing the work of the beauty salon -- Inventing beauty: the history of the beauty salon -- Just because it feels good doesn't make it right?: identity in the beauty salon -- The hidden labour of beauty -- Look good, feel better: promoting health in the beauty salon -- You feel better when you leave: some concluding comments.- Subjects: Feminine beauty (Aesthetics); Beauty, Personal; Beauty culture; Body, Human; Beauty shops; Cosmetics industry.; Mind and body.; Cosmetica-industrie.; Schoonheidsverzorging.; Vrouwen.; Sociologische aspecten.;
- © 2004., Routledge,
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